Vitamania

Vitamania

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Vitamania

SBS | August 12, 2018

Health and PE

Science

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Dr Derek Muller takes us on an epic journey, a world-spanning investigation of vitamin science and history from molecules to marketing, from colds to chemotherapy. What he uncovers will confound opinions on all sides of the debate over vitamins and dietary supplements.

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Dr Derek Muller takes us on an epic journey, a world-spanning investigation of vitamin science and history from molecules to marketing, from colds to chemotherapy. What he uncovers will confound opinions on all sides of the debate over vitamins and dietary supplements.

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Derek Muller reveals how vitamin A both helped save the sight of a boy and may have killed Antarctic explorer Xavier Mertz by hypervitaminosis A.

Vitamin A's benefits and risks

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Derek Muller reveals how vitamin A both helped save the sight of a boy and may have killed Antarctic explorer Xavier Mertz by hypervitaminosis A.

Derek Muller, with the help of a musician, explains how in 1911 Polish biochemist Casimir Funk determined that the absence of vitamins in the diet leads to illness, in the song "Birth of a Word (Dr Funk)".

Casimir Funk coins term vitamins (in song)

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Derek Muller, with the help of a musician, explains how in 1911 Polish biochemist Casimir Funk determined that the absence of vitamins in the diet leads to illness, in the song "Birth of a Word (Dr Funk)".

Derek Muller, with the help of a musician, reveals what the different vitamins are, what they do for the body, and what the difference is between water soluble and fat soluble vitamins, in the song, "Meet the Vitamins".

What are vitamins anyway? (in song)

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Derek Muller, with the help of a musician, reveals what the different vitamins are, what they do for the body, and what the difference is between water soluble and fat soluble vitamins, in the song, "Meet the Vitamins".

Derek Muller visits the home of a scurvy patient to see what his diet is like, and the man's doctor explains the link between poverty and poor nutrition, or hypercaloric malnutrition.

Link between poverty and poor nutrition

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Derek Muller visits the home of a scurvy patient to see what his diet is like, and the man's doctor explains the link between poverty and poor nutrition, or hypercaloric malnutrition.

Derek Muller meets wheelchair athlete Kim Robins and Australian epidemiologist Fiona Stanley to learn the link between folate deficiency, neural tube defects and folic acid fortification in bread.

Folate, neural tube defects and bread

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Derek Muller meets wheelchair athlete Kim Robins and Australian epidemiologist Fiona Stanley to learn the link between folate deficiency, neural tube defects and folic acid fortification in bread.

Derek Muller investigates how the success of cod liver oil in curing rickets led to mass marketing claims in advance of the scientific evidence available to support them in the 19th century.

Cod liver oil mass marketing

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Derek Muller investigates how the success of cod liver oil in curing rickets led to mass marketing claims in advance of the scientific evidence available to support them in the 19th century.

Derek Muller demonstrates how lanolin is separated from sheep wool and processed to form synthetic vitamin D.

Vitamin D from sheep wool

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Derek Muller demonstrates how lanolin is separated from sheep wool and processed to form synthetic vitamin D.

Derek Muller, with the help of a musician, explains how the vitamin industry in the US avoided Food and Drug Administration rules around the mandatory testing of medicines.

How vitamin claims evade testing (in song)

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Derek Muller, with the help of a musician, explains how the vitamin industry in the US avoided Food and Drug Administration rules around the mandatory testing of medicines.

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